NYC Accounts

Each student in a DOE school is assigned a NYC Schools Account, which provides parents with a new way of accessing key information about their child’s progress. With your NYC Schools account, you will be able to view your child's information (grades, test scores and attendance) in one of ten languages on a computer, phone or tablet.

For 4th and 5th grade students, the NYC Account is the only way for you to see your child's 3rd or 4th grade state test results.

In order to set up your account, you will need your child's student ID number and a Creation Code.Student IDs are 9 digit numbers beginning with the number 2 and can be found on your child's report card. Letters will be sent home with the Creation Codes over the next week. (Fourth grade parents received them earlier so they could access last year's test scores.) Letters are only sent to parents who have not yet set up an account.

Kindergarten parents who do not yet know their child's ID can ask their child's teacher or contact the main office after receiving their letters.

If you have more than one child attending a NYC public school, you will receive one letter containing an account creation code for each child. You will only need to enter the student ID and Account Creation Code for one of your children. Once you create an account, you can add your remaining children by entering their student IDs and Account Creation Codes on the “Manage My Account” page. Each Account Creation Code is unique to you and your child and should not be shared with others. 

 Attendance Reminders

1. When your child is going to be absent, you should notify the school by sending an email to attendance@ps166.org and copying your child's teacher. Do not call the nurse or the main office.
2. When your child returns to school after an absence of one or two days, you must send a hard copy note to the teacher, stating the reason.
3. When your child returns to school after an absence of three days or more, you must send a hard copy doctor's note. 
4. When your child is late, there is no need to provide a note unless the lateness is due to a doctor or dentist appointment. In those events, you must bring your child to the main office, sign the late book and turn in the note.  Do not ever bring your child directly to the classroom.
5. If your child is late due to a middle school tour, bring your child to the main office and turn in the middle school letter. Middle school visits are not coded as "late" since the student was at another school. 
6. Please cross check your child's attendance record either on your NYC account or on the report card. Corrections cannot be made once the school year is over. If you think there is an error, notify the school so it can be looked into.

And finally, late is late, whether it is one minute or one hour. Students not riding the bus who are not with their class by 8:20 are late for school. That means that children still walking in the door at 8:20 are late and marked accordingly. Think of arrival time as 8:15 and your child will never be marked late. 

Recess Update

In our efforts to ensure that recess is safe and fun for all students, we recently held meetings with the recess staff from each grade to improve on the procedures and structures in place.  A new exit/entrance plan was implemented to reduce the time students are waiting to enter the yard, allowing them to begin playing right away.

Some reminders:

• Running is not allowed on the top of the climbing structure. Running on flat surfaces is fine.
• No hard balls are allowed - only nerf /soft balls. No balls should be brought from home.
• Students may not run or climb if wearing backless sandals or flip-flops.
• Students may not climb on the fence.
• Students may not hang upside down on the monkey bars.

Our goal is for students to have fun and stay safe during recess!